The Lettrist Cinema in 1968: The Café-Cinema Experience and Le soulèvement de la jeunesse
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Lettrist Vanguard, May 1968, Experimental CinemaAbstract
Between 1967 and 1969, the lettrist vanguard maintains a café-cinema, combining experimental projections and artistic interventions inspired by the group's previous practices. In the light of this experience, the aim is to examine the lettrists’ positions in relation to 1968’s events from three steps. Firstly, a mapping of cafe-cinema activities and manifestos in their continuities with remaining lettrist practices. In a second moment, we emphasize the conceptual debate of such continuities based on the ideas of collage, everyday life and youth. Finally, we analyze the film Le Soulèvement de la jeunesse (1968), by Maurice Lemaître, identifying a self-centered construction that takes rebellions as the consolidation of the theories announced by Isidore Isou in the book Traité d’économie nucléaire (1949).
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FILMOGRAFIA
Chantal D. Star (1968), Maurice Lemaître, França, 26 min.
Chutes (1968), Maurice Lemaître, França, 12 min.
Le Soulèvement de la jeunesse – mai 1968 (1968), Maurice Lemaître, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, França, 26 min.
Les Actualités françaises – 29 mai 1968 (1968), Les Actualités françaises, França, 6 min.
Les Actualités françaises – Regards sur le monde: 1957, Les Actualités françaises, França, 1958, 9min.
Tous derrière Suzanne, jeune dure et pure! (1978-1995), Maurice Lemaître, França, 174 min.
Traité de bave et d'éternité (1951), Isidore Isou, prod. Marc’O, França, 120 min.
Un chien andalou (1929), Luis Buñuel e Salvador Dalí, França, 16 min.
Une oeuvre (1968), Maurice Lemaître, França, 15min.
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